124 SANTA MARIA OIL DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA. 
highly productive. The conditions affecting the presence of oil have 
been discussed for individual areas and those places enumerated in 
which the conditions seem favorable for its accumulation. 
There are 52 oil companies interested in the district; 11 of these 
own all the producing wells. Of the 174 wells in the district 94 are 
productive, 55 are drilling, and 25 are abandoned. The total pro¬ 
duction of the field up to January 1, 1907, was 9,117,076 barrels; the 
production for 1906 alone was 4,906,513 barrels. 
